I am not a pirate.

[conuly]

Were I a pirate, I would be actively fighting this blatant pirate prejudice displayed by mocking my traditional accent. Arr.

I mean. Um. Die, landlubbers?

*sighs*

Okay, fine. Maybe I am a pirate. But I don't have to talk like one. *nodnodnod* Those days ended with "Connie wanna cracker?" in my infancy.

Comments

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

Does it help to know that the "pirate accent" is a fairly accurate approximation of how some words were pronounced during the Great Vowel Shift?

[conuly]

What, really? Who says?

[mortaine.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that, but am completely unsurprised, considering how frequently I want to shift into ME when doing Pirate-speak.

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

The Stanford prof who did the series of lectures on the History of the English Language I have on MP3... I'd offer to YSI or Gmail it but it's around 18 hours long. Damn cool though, I'd never heard the "Bad Quarto" of the "To be or not to be" speech from HAMLET before.

Some links with offhand mentions, from a quick Google-

http://lists.spack.org/pipermail/wordup/2003/000702.html
http://cw.caret.cam.ac.uk/converse/anon/communities/Books!/thread4291858873426515.xml

Way OT

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Will you please go check out my latest post (http://www.livejournal.com/users/fugaciouslover/100038.html) and give your feedback? You're better with words than most; you might have a clue. I don't.

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

Does it help to know that the "pirate accent" is a fairly accurate approximation of how some words were pronounced during the Great Vowel Shift?

[conuly]

What, really? Who says?

[mortaine.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that, but am completely unsurprised, considering how frequently I want to shift into ME when doing Pirate-speak.

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

The Stanford prof who did the series of lectures on the History of the English Language I have on MP3... I'd offer to YSI or Gmail it but it's around 18 hours long. Damn cool though, I'd never heard the "Bad Quarto" of the "To be or not to be" speech from HAMLET before.

Some links with offhand mentions, from a quick Google-

http://lists.spack.org/pipermail/wordup/2003/000702.html
http://cw.caret.cam.ac.uk/converse/anon/communities/Books!/thread4291858873426515.xml

Way OT

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Will you please go check out my latest post (http://www.livejournal.com/users/fugaciouslover/100038.html) and give your feedback? You're better with words than most; you might have a clue. I don't.